Jason Tumlinson

Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Department of Physics

P.O. Box 208121

New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8121

jason.tumlinson@yale.edu

(203) 432-9669

Personal

U. S. Citizen, date of birth 1/29/1975

Education

B.A. 1997 Physics, Rice University

M.S. 1999 Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado – Boulder

Ph. D. 2002 Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado – Boulder

Research and Teaching Experience

September 2005 – present: Gilbert and Jaylee Mead Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University

September 2002 – August 2005: Edwin P. Hubble Scientist, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

January 1998 – August 2002: Research Assistant to J. Michael Shull, APS, University of Colorado at Boulder

September 1997 - December 1997: Teaching Assistant to Ted Snow, APS, CU-Boulder

May 1996 - June 1997: Research Assistant to Patrick Hartigan, Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

Research Interests

The first stars, galaxy formation, interstellar and intergalactic matter, nucleosynthesis

Supported Research

Lead Investigator, “Molecule Formation at High Extinction in the LMC/SMC”, FUSE Cycle 3

Principal Investigator, “IGM Phases and Metals with New SDSS QSOs”, HST Cycle 12

Principal Investigator, “IGM Phases and HVCs in 37 SDSS Galaxy Groups”, FUSE Cycle 5

Principal Investigator, “Interstellar Processes at Low Metallicity”, NCSA Computing Allocation

Professional Activities

Associate Member of the FUSE Principal Investigator Team

Science Team, High-Orbit Origins Satellite (HORUS) NASA Origins Probe Concept Study

Visiting Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, “IGM/Galaxy Interactions”, Nov. 2004

NASA FUSE General Observer Peer Review Panel

Forthcoming Publications

Tumlinson, J. 2006b “Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and the Contribution of the First Stars to Reionization”, ApJL, submitted (astro-ph/0602179)

Tumlinson, J. 2006a “Chemical Evolution in Hierarchical Models of Cosmic Structure I: Constraints on the Early Stellar Initial Mass Function”, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0507442)

Conners, T. W., Kawata, D., Bailin, J., Tumlinson, J., and Gibson, B. K. 2006 “On the origin of Anomalous Velocity Clouds in the Milky Way”, ApJL, in press (astro-ph/0509314)

Stocke, J. T., Penton, S. V., Danforth, C. W., Shull, J. M., & Tumlinson, J. 2006 “The Galaxy Environment of OVI Absorption Systems”, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0509822)

Refereed Publications

Gillmon, K. A., Shull, J. M., & Tumlinson, J., & Danforth, C. W. 2006, “A FUSE Survey of Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Halo”, ApJ, 636, 891

Tumlinson, J., & Fang, T. 2005 “Hot Baryons and the Distribution of Metals in the Intergalactic Medium”, ApJ, 623, L97

Keeney, B.A., Momjian, E., Stocke, J. T., Carilli, C. L., & Tumlinson, J. 2005 “Absorption Line Study of Halo Gas in NGC 3067 toward 3C 232”, ApJ, 622, 267

Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., Giroux, M. L., & Stocke, J. T. “The Hot IGM – Galaxy Connection: Two Strong O VI Absorbers toward PG1211+143”, ApJ, 620, 95

Tumlinson, J., Venkatesan, A., & Shull, J. M. 2004, “Nucleosynthesis, Reionization, and the Mass Function of the First Stars”, ApJ, 612, 602 (TVS04)

Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J., Giroux, M. L., Kriss, G. A., et al. 2004, “The Fluctuating Intergalactic Radiation Field at Redshifts z = 2.3-2.9 from He II and H I Absorption toward HE 2347-4342”, ApJ, 2004, 600, 570

Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J., & Giroux, M. L. 2003, “The Multiphase Intergalactic Medium toward PKS2155-304”, ApJ, 594, L107

Venkatesan, A., Tumlinson, J., & Shull, J. M. 2003, “Evolving Spectra of Population III Stars: Consequences for Cosmological Reionization”, ApJ, 584, 621 (VTS03)

Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., & Venkatesan, A. 2003, “Cosmological Effects of the First Stars: Evolving Spectra of Population III”, ApJ, 584, 608 (TSV03)

Browning, M. K., Tumlinson, J., & Shull, J. M. 2003 “Inferring Physical Conditions in Interstellar Clouds of H₂”, ApJ, 582, 810

Rachford, B. L., Snow, T. P., Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., et al. 2002 “A FUSE Survey of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen in Translucent Clouds”, ApJ, 577, 221

Welsh, B. Y., Rachford, B. L., & Tumlinson, J. 2001, “High-velocity Molecular Hydrogen Gas Associated with the Monoceros Loop Supernova Remnant”, A&A, 381, 566

Gibson, B. K., Giroux, M. L., Penton, S. V., Stocke, J. T., Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J. 2001 “High-Velocity Cloud Complex C: Galactic Fuel or Galactic Waste?”, AJ, 122, 3280

Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., Rachford, B. L., Browning, M. L., Snow, T. P., Fullerton, A. W., Jenkins, E. B., Savage, B. D., Crowther, P. A., Moos, H. W., Sembach, K. S., Sonneborn, G., & York, D. G. 2002 “A FUSE Survey of Molecular Hydrogen in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds”, ApJ, 566, 857

Kriss, G. A., Shull, J. M., Oegerle, W. R., Zheng, W., Davidsen, A. F., Songaila, A., Tumlinson, J., et al. (12 others) 2001 “Resolving the Structure of Ionized Helium in the Intergalactic Medium with FUSE”, Science, 293, 1112

Tripp, T. M., Giroux, M. L., Stocke, J. T., Tumlinson, J., & Oegerle, W. R. 2001 “The Ionization and Metallicity of the Intervening O VI Absorber at z = 0.121 in the Spectrum of H1821+643”, ApJ, 563, 724

Rachford, B. L., Snow, T. P., Tumlinson, J., et al. 2001, “FUSE Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in Translucent Interstellar Clouds: II. The Line of Sight Toward HD 110432”, ApJ, 555, 839

Tumlinson, J., Giroux, M. L., & Shull, J. M. 2001 “Probing the First Stars with Hydrogen and Helium Recombination Emission”, ApJ, 550, L1 (TGS01)

Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J., Rachford, B. L., Snow, T. P., et al. “FUSE Observations of Diffuse Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen” 2000b, ApJ, 538, L73

Shull, J. M., Giroux, M. L., Penton, S. V., Tumlinson, J., Stocke, J. T., et al. “FUSE Observations of the Low-Redshift Lyman-beta Forest” 2000, ApJ, 538, L13

Snow, T. P., Rachford, B. L., Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., et al. “FUSE Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in Translucent Interstellar Clouds” 2000, ApJ, 538, L69

Fullerton, A. W., . . . , Tumlinson, J., Willis, A. J. 2000 “Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of the Stellar Winds of Two O7 Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds”, ApJ, 538, L43

Ferlet, R., Andre, M., …, Tumlinson, J., York, D. G., Moos, H. W. 2000 “FUSE Observations of the HD Molecule Toward HD 73882”, ApJ, 538, L69

Tumlinson, J., & Shull, J. M. 2000 “Zero-metallicity Stars and the Effects of the First Stars on Reionization”, ApJ, 528, L65 (TS00)

Tumlinson, J., Giroux, M.L., Shull, J.M., & Stocke, J.T. 1999 “New HST Observations of the Halo Gas of NGC 3067: Limits on the Extragalactic Ionizing Background at Low Redshift and the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction”, AJ, 118, 2148

Hartigan, P.M., Morse, J.A., Tumlinson, J., Raymond, J.C., Heathcote, S. 1999 “HST/ FOS Optical and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Bow Shock HH47A”, ApJ 512, 901

Invited Talks and Colloquia (First Stars) – Links are to PDF files where available

“Nucleosynthesis by the First Stars”, Space Telescope Science Institute May Symposium, May 2006, invited review

“Unraveling the Local Group to Find the First Stars”, Aspen Center for Physics Winter Conference on Local Group Cosmology, February 2006, invited review

“Ending the Dark Ages: A New Synthesis Reveals the First Stars”, University of Michigan, October 2005, departmental colloquium

“Chemical Evolution and Galaxy Formation: A New Synthesis Reveals the First Stars” Workshop on Mass, Light, and Chemistry in the Early Universe, U. of Minnesota, October 2005, invited talk

“Near-Field Cosmology, or, What the Galaxy Can Teach Us about the First Stars?”, Argonne National Laboratory, June 2005, invited talk

“The First Stars: Nucleosynthesis and Reionization”, Workshop on First Light Detection, UC Irvine, May 2005, invited talk

“The First Stars and the Reionization”, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, February 2005, departmental colloquium

“The First Stars: A Review”, New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos, The 15^th Annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland, October 2004, invited review

“From Nucleosynthesis to Reionization: Observational Constraints on the Nature of the First Stars”, AAS, Denver, June 2004, First Stars and QSOs Special Session, invited talk

“The End of the Dark Ages: The First Stars and Reionization”, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, March 2004, departmental colloquium

“The First Stars and Reionization”, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2003, departmental colloquium

“The First Stars and Reionization”, Department of Astronomy, University of Chicago, October 2002, departmental colloquium

Invited Talks and Colloquia (ISM/IGM)

“FUSE’s Five Years of Progress on the Interstellar Medium”, Astrophysics in the Far Ultraviolet: Five Years of Discovery with FUSE, August 2004, invited review (astroph/0411249)

“SDSS Probes the Galaxy/IGM Connection”, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, April 2004, special colloquium

“SDSS and VLST Probe the Galaxy/IGM Connection” at the Very Large Space Telescope Science Workshop, STScI, February 2004

Public Talks

“The First Stars”, Chicago Astronomical Society at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, July 2004

Selected Conference Proceedings (Exclusive of Above)

Ulmer, M.P., Kibblewhite, E.J., Herter, T. L., Thompson, L. A., Giovanelli, R., Harper, D.A., Kron, R. G., Mohr, J. J., Stacey, G. J., Tumlinson, J., & York, D. G. “Large Telescope Project Dedicated to an Origins Survey”, SPIE Proceedings of the Second Baskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, ed. A. Ardeberg & T. Andersen, 2004, pp. 193-204

Gillmon, K., Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J., “FUSE Survey of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen toward 40 High-Latitude AGN”, AAS, Denver, June 2004

Shull, J. M, Anderson, K. A., Tumlinson, J. “FUSE Survey of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen toward 130 Galactic Disk Sightlines”, AAS, Denver, June 2004

Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., Venkatesan, A. “Cosmological Reionization by the First Stars: Evolving Spectra of Population III”, 27th IAP Colloquium, Paris, 2001

Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., Rachford, B., Snow, T. P., Jenkins, E. B., Savage, B. D., Sembach, K. R., Sonneborn, G., York, D. G. “FUSE Observations of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen”, BAAS, 195, 6.08

Sonneborn, G., Shull, J. M., Tumlinson, J., Jenkins, E. B., Savage, B. D., Moos, H. W., Sembach, K. R., York, D. G. “FUSE Observations of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen in the Small Magellanic Cloud”, BAAS, 195, 6.10

Shull, J. M., Giroux, M. L., Penton, S. V., Tumlinson, J., Jenkins, E. B., Savage, B. D., Sembach, K. R., York, D. G., “FUSE Observations of Intergalactic Lyman Beta Absorbers at Low Redshift”, BAAS, 195, 6.15

Snow, T. P., Rachford, B. L., Tumlinson, J., Shull, J. M., Blair, W. P., Ferlet, R., Friedman, S. D., Gry, C., Jenkins, E. B., Morton, D. C., Savage, B. D., Sembach, K. R., Vidal-Madjar, A., Welty, D. E., York, D. G. “FUSE Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in Translucent Interstellar Clouds”, BAAS, 195, 6.07

Tumlinson, J. 2000, “Light and Metals from Population III Stars”, Proceedings of the Second MPA/ESO Workshop on "The First Stars” eds. Weiss, Abel, Hill, Springer: Heidelberg